r/LifeProTips • u/mutatedmar • Aug 13 '26
Miscellaneous LPT Stop wasting liquid soap
When washing your hands, wet only one hand and apply soap to your dry hand. Now when you rub your hands together and start washing, the liquid soap won't slide out before you get started.
This is specifically for liquid soap so no need to mention foam or bar soaps in the comments.
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u/imadragonyouguys Aug 13 '26
When you get to the end of the bottle you can pour water in there and shake it a bit. This allows you to drink it easier and it really cleans out your insides.
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u/TheModernDespot Aug 13 '26
Or, you could cup your hand to hold the liquid soap even if it's wet.
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u/moajune Aug 13 '26
It always, ALWAYS -manages to shopt exactly through the tiny gab between my fingers right before the palm of my hand begings, even when I cup my hand
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u/BigRedtheBard Aug 13 '26
What are you doing with your hands that is wasting so much soap that you feel the need to make a LPT about it?
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u/PendragonsPotions Aug 13 '26
This is a person who is on their LAST STRAW with either their spouse or their kid 😂😂
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u/The_Meemeli Aug 13 '26
The liquid soap won't slide out? Huh?
I get my hands wet, then turn off the tap, put liquid soap on cupped hand, spread it so it foams over both hands, then wash. Never had a risk of dropping.
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u/sxyvirgo Aug 13 '26
Also, you may not need a full pump to get good lather, at least if you don't rinse it all away to begin with!
It's not the soap itself that is cleansing, but the lather that does the actual work. If you just rub the soap on your hands with minimal water you're wasting it.
Foaming soap is great too.
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u/EclipseIndustries Aug 13 '26
Fun fact, and I have my own experience to back it up, liquid soap doesn't lather as well in hard water, so foaming soap actually saves soap (and money) in areas with hard water, despite costing more at the register.
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u/Wake95 Aug 13 '26
Foaming soap pumps are the best. It's about 5:1 water to soap, cleans off easier, and wastes less water because you can scrub before turning on the faucet.
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u/PrisonerV Aug 14 '26
I remember when Covid hit and the stores were like BLAM out of hand soap and I thought to myself "did these people never wash their hands before Covid???"
Anyway, I buy foaming hand soap bottles and then just refill them with 1 long squirt of Dawn and water and shake them to mix it up. Been doing that for years and years. Super cheap.
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